Join our Team

We want you to make a positive impact on our clients’ lives.

We’ll give you all the specialist care training you need to deal with the daily challenges of looking after someone in their own home.

We place a real emphasis on training you to understand what our clients really want and need. Our training isn’t just focused on delivering high-quality live-in care; you’ll also be trained in areas of lifestyle enhancement to promote overall wellbeing.

When you become a Santé Care at Home care professional, you’ll have to complete the statutory and mandatory training.

We’ll then support you with our ongoing training programme – developed to keep safety awareness at a maximum for you and help with your self-confidence and legal compliance.

In broad terms, statutory and mandatory training refers to the core modules of basic life support, including Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), fire safety awareness and manual handling/lifting.

Plus, you’ll also receive the following training:

• • Health and Safety at Work

• • Control of Substances Hazardous to Health

• • Caldicott Principles

• • Infection Control

• • Food Hygiene

• • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults

• • Conflict Management
  • Lone Working

Our four-day training course induction training programme encompasses everything from personal care, medications administration through to first aid.

Ensuring you understand the needs and expectations of the client: how to promote independence; and client’s rights to dignity, respect, individuality and choice.

This training incorporates the following Skills for Care Induction Standards:

1. 1. Role of the health and social care worker Responsibilities and limits

1. 1. Personal Development

1. 1. Communicate effectively

1. 1. Equality and Inclusion

1. 1. Principles for implementing duty of care

1. 1. Principles of safeguarding in health and social care

1. 1. Person Centred Support

1. 1. Health & safety in an adult social care setting

In addition to the four days initial training, you’ll receive on-going training, mentoring and professional development – giving you the skills and confidence to deliver care to the highest quality standard.

We invest time in ensuring that you are matched to the right client.

Not just so that your experiences and skills meet the client’s specific care needs, but also so that your personalities and interests are aligned.

Helping to build stronger, more meaningful relationships. Bigger impact on their lives.

Exactly what you’ll be required to do on a day-today basis will vary depending on each client’s need. However, here’s what you can expect as a live-in carer:

Support around the home:

Cleaning, changing bed linen and towels, laundry and ironing, shopping for weekly groceries, help with meal preparation and managing bill payments.

Personal care:

Dressing and undressing, washing and bathing, shaving, assistance with hair and makeup, nail care, continence care and support with prescribed medication.

Companionship:

Conversation, encouraging contact with family and friends, help with reading and keeping up correspondence, accompanying on holidays, day trips or short breaks.

Fulfilling lives:

Encouraging and supporting hobbies and interests at home or in the local community, encouraging exercise, accompanying people on visits (including day centres or other community day activities), and accompanying people on doctor’s appointments.

Just how long you’ll be working with a client will can vary from a few weeks to several months.

When you first start with us, we’ll chat about your requirements and jointly decide on your working day. As a guide, this will usually be between 9 and 12 hours each day – between 6am and 10pm.

Occasionally, night calls will be part of your job, but these are brief and infrequent. If they ever become more than this, we’ll support you with an additional carer for night duty.

We also know that caring can be physically and emotionally demanding. So, you’ll have at least 2 hours of uninterrupted break during the day – if needed this will be covered by a visiting carer.

And to help you stay fresh and able to deliver consistently high standard of care, we schedule regular, longer breaks for you.

You’ll receive regular supervision checks to make sure you’re sticking to the care plans, to find out if any new care requirements that have occurred, and to check that you’re feeling confident, happy and supported.

Some of the on-going assessment methods we use will include:

• Regular spot checking
• Probationary review
• At least four supervisions per annum, one to include direct observation of care provision
• Annual appraisal
• Quality Assurance